The following information details the development of DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp.

Major Milestones

• Initial release of DoxyPress
• Conference presentation announcing CopperSpice and DoxyPress
• Add libclang and libTooling for parsing C++
• Add support for parsing C++17
• Migrate to clang 10 for parsing C++
• Current release of DoxyPress / DoxyPressApp

2014

November 2014

• Discovered Doxygen was not sufficient for accurate C++11 API documentation
• Used QDoc on Qt 4.8.6 source code to generate html output
• Merged Qt 5.x html pages with Qt 4.x html output
• Developed a parser to convert html documentation to the Doxygen format

December 2014

• Fork of Doxygen 1.8.8
• Renamed Doxygen to DoxyPress
• Wrote new makefiles to build DoxyPress with GNU Autotools
• Removed all Qt 2 classes and containers
• DoxyPress links with CopperSpice library using C++11
• Code reformatted and modified to use C++11 syntax where appropriate
• Updated source code to use variadic templates and shared pointers
• Renamed DoxyWizard to DoxyPressApp
• Wrote new makefiles to build DoxyPressApp with GNU Autotools
• Redesigned the user interface of DoxyPressApp

2015

January 2015

• Changed DoxyPress to use a JSON project file
• Added a new parser to support documenting Makefiles. Uses the new command \code {.mk}
• Changed erroneous 'div' tags to paragraph tags
• Resolved issues with white space in tables. Blank rows are no longer displayed in the table output and do not cause layout issues
• Changed DoxyPressApp to use a JSON project file
• Added a feature to convert a Doxygen project file to a DoxyPress JSON project file
• Tags with list values are now comma separated. Improved UI to use one consistent style of editor
• Tags with list values can be modified inline or with the pop up editor

February 2015

• Updated help text for every field in the DoxyPressApp
• Help text is activated by mousing over the corresponding data field
• Created a new test project for functional testing
• Added a tag for removing the timestamp for LaTex
• Added a tag to specify the full file name for the GhostScript program

• New variable added
  • $datetimeHHMM
  • Variable will be substituted with the current date and time during documentation generation
  • An example of this format is: "Tue Mar 31 2015 15:30"

March 2015

• Added a new command \sortid X, where X must be an integer
• This newcommand can be used to specify the sort order of pages in the treeview
• Incorporated numerous changes from Doxygen 1.8.9 into DoxyPress 1.0.0
• Updated the HTML style sheets and layout files
• DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp released to Alpha

April 2015

• Added DoxyPress support Forum for end users, developers, and bug tracking
• Added syntax highlighting in DoxyPressApp for several words like Reading, Processing, Error, and Warning
• Fixed display issue with \secreflist layout
• Added a second optional parameter to \anchor to specify the displayed anchor name
• Fixed <dl> so it can contain multiple <dd> tags
• Images no longer force a new paragraph

• DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp released to Beta

• DoxyPressApp 1.0.0 release
• DoxyPress 1.0.0 release

May 2015

• Compiled clang 3.6.0 on Windows 32-bit and 64-bit
• Review the process to use clang for C++ parsing
• Add support for documenting CopperSpice macros
• Enhanced support for Qt macros
• Auto generated table has been added to property documentation to show associated methods
• Changed the function pages (variables, typedefs, enums, etc) to show the underscore letter for the first page
• For a function page containing multiple pages, a new redirect page from the base name to the correct first letter will automatically be generated

June 2015

• Clean up DoxyPress documentation
• Backport several cherry picks
• Added a warning when member source and member documented return types do not agree
• Output was incorrect when an enum with the same name was in multiple namespaces
• Enhanced C++ parsing support
• Removed compound auto link to self
• Added three new sections to the layout file for class docs
  • Typedefs which were in "Public Types" were moved to "Public Typedefs"
  • Typedefs which were in "Protected Types" were moved to "Protected Typedefs"
  • Typedefs which were in "Private Types" were moved to "Private Typedefs"

July 2015

• Redesigned the entire translation system to use the built in CopperSpice Translations
• A DoxyPress project can switch between language translations without rebuilding
• Extensive changes to use QString instead of eight bit strings
• Modified all methods character processing to use Unicode
• Fixed <div id = "nav-path">, conflict with the an id, new id is "breadcrumb"
• Added markdown page to the Test Suite Project

August 2015

• Given a function with only a brief description and no detailed description
  • With Auto Brief is set "on" documentation was not shown in the declaration section
  • Resolved in DoxyPress version 1.1.0

• Official release of DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp

• DoxyPressApp 1.1.0 release
• DoxyPress 1.1.0 release

September 2015

• Attended CppCon in Seattle, Washington
• Presented a talk announcing the release of CopperSpice
• Presented a talk announcing the release of DoxyPress

• Presented a lightning talk about a compile time counter using templates

October 2015

• Reorganize DoxyPressApp Json project file to use a hierarchical structure
• Fix input source path issues and recursion problem
• Updated the DoxyPress test build

November 2015

• Added a project tag to specify the main index page name, this file name will not be included in the navigation treeview file listing if FILES is enabled
• New tags were added in the project file to specify source extensions and header extensions
• New header extension tags allow the user the ability to define which files will appear in the File List
• Release RC-2

December 2015

• Added Latex Stylesheets to DoxyPress, updated DoxyPressApp with a new project tag
• Updated the DoxyPress test build
• Backport cherry picks
• Converted numerous internal raw pointers to shared pointers
• Removed unused source code
• Release RC-3
• Updated copyright

2016

January 2016

• Uploaded source to GitHub (version 1.1.0)
• Backport cherry picks
• Added new project tag to omit the main index page from the navigation treeview
• Added new project tag to specify a list of namespaces which should be renamed in the documentation with an alias name

• Merged development branch with master
• Uploaded source to GitHub (version 1.2.0)

• Added the ability to pass the date/time to DoxyPress from the command line (Refer to Set Date/Time)
• Added a feature in the DoxyPressApp program to pass the date/time to DoxyPress
• Corrected several error messages for project file tags

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.0 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.0 release

February 2016

• Fixed legacy issue with auto links to templated classes
• Resolved an issue with graphViz
• Resolved an issue with file names for global functions
• Enhanced the interface to use libclang for parsing C++
• Minimum required version of GCC is now 4.8.1

March 2016

• Upgrade to clang 3.7.1
• Enhance libClang integration for C++ parsing
• Separated File Listing into Files List and File Source
• Updated the default layout file, added a new tag for File Source
• Added user requested changes and enhancements
• Added a command line option in DoxyPressApp to convert a project file to the DoxyPress format

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.1 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.1 release

April 2016

• Enhanced the options DoxyPressApp can pass to DoxyPress
• Continue with development to use libClang for parsing C++ source

May 2016

• CppNow 2016 presentation on CopperSpice and our new CsSignal library
• CppNow 2016 presentation on DoxyPress demonstrating how clang can be used to parse C++
• CppNow 2016 presentation on libGuarded

• Switch to using clang libTooling 3.7.1 for parsing C++
• Created a test suite for C++ parsing

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.2 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.2 release

June 2016

• Fix reported member grouping issue
• Rework Python parsing file
• Created a test suite for Python parsing
• Adjust icons to indicate a P for packages instead of a namespace for Java and python
• Add new tag to DoxyPressApp for Python optimization

• Released DoxyPress 1.2.3-RC-1 source and Windows 64 binary files

July 2016

• CopperSpice team on temporary medical leave as Barbara recovers from a Total Knee Replacement
  Thank you to the community for their wonderful support and encouragement during this time

August 2016

• Fix reported user issues
• Backport cherry picks
• Added accelerators to DoxyPressApp
• Update python test build files
• Enhance how css files are copied into a project
• Update DoxyPress documentation

• Released DoxyPress 1.2.4-RC-1, Windows 64 binary files

September 2016

• Several improvements in markdown
• Added documentation detailing how to build DoxyPress with libClang
• Added documentation detailing how to build clang
• Remove "-0" from Cs library file names

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.4 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.4 release

October 2016

• Continue internal work on clang parsing for C++

November 2016

• Resolve several reported issues from current users
• Backport cherry picks
• Minor clean up in the DoxyPressApp UI
• Extensive changes to Fortran parsing
• Added test files for multiple languages to DoxyPress test build
• Modify the global containers to access by value instead of raw pointers

December 2016

• Add additional testing to the test build for DoxyPress commands
• Cleaned up marshaling by removing raw pointers, increased stability
• Corrected an issue with the source file index layout
• Resolved C# user report parsing issue
• Resolved tagfile generation issue
• Enhanced file source navigation
• Redesigned cite and bibliography to work on Windows
• Add 'override' to inherited methods
• Update documentation detailing how to build clang for Debian Jessie

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.5 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.5 release

2017

January 2017

• Update copyright
• Resolved return type issue for overloaded methods
• Fixed an issue when documenting a template overload
• Enhance parsing when suppressing word links for templates
• Clarified warning messages
• Template parameter list did not match when < > spacing was not exact, compare adjusted
• DoxyPressApp: Added Find and FindNext on the process tab

February 2017

• Optimize memory usage in preprocessor
• Clean up inherited memory leaks as reported from Valgrind
• Change several small QList containers to use QVector
• Enhance clang parsing to handle template parameters
• CMake build files under development, working on scripts to locate required libraries

• Accepted as speakers for CppNow 2017

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.6 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.6 release

March 2017

• Redesign interface for handling templates in clang libTooling when parsing C++
• Extensive testing of the clang parsing by documenting the actual clang source code

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.7 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.7 release

April 2017

• Fix Unicode problem with comments, multi byte characters are now displayed properly
• Fix DoxyPressApp to display the DoxyPress output using UTF-8
• Correct warning log for explicit methods
• Continued improvements in clang libTooling when parsing C++

May 2017

• CppNow 2017 presentation on CsString, a Unicode aware string library
• CppNow 2017 presentation on libGuarded, new RCU container classes

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.8 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.8 release

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.9 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.9 release

June 2017

• Update CMake build system to locate CopperSpice libraries
• Update CMake build system for packaging support with CPack

• Fix issue with the brief on group pages, use abbreviated brief
• Allow a group list to contain classes with the same name in different scopes
• Optimize class lookup in map container, remove duplicate calls to find
• For Latex output, modify so only one text stream is used
• Fix format of Latex comments

• Increase number of recent files open to 15 for DoxyPressApp

July 2017

• CMake successfully creates zip file packages for DoxyPress & DoxyPressApp for Windows

• Recorded CppCast interview
• Started CopperSpice YouTube channel

• Accepted as speakers for CppCon 2017 presenting CsString, a Unicode aware string library
• Accepted as speakers for CppCon 2017 presenting libGuarded, new RCU container classes

• Clean up user issues reported on Github

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.10 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.10 release

August 2017

• Resolved issue with lex parsing C++ qualifiers
• Fixed output when only RTF is selected
• Minor DoxyPressApp gui updates
• Updated to support clang 3.8.1 for clang parsing

• Update minimum required clang version to 3.8.1 for building DoxyPress
• Update minimum required GCC version to 5.4 for building DoxyPress
• Migrate to C++14 on all platforms

September 2017

• Document how to build clang 3.8 for various platforms with RTTI enabled, required for clang parsing
• Update documentation when parsing with clang

• DoxyPressApp 1.2.11 release
• DoxyPress 1.2.11 release

• Attended CppCon in Seattle, Washington
• Presented a talk on CsString and libGuarded at CppCon

November 2017

• Begin design to overhaul the internal representation of parsed source code
• New entry system design required adding a new class called QFlatMap to CopperSpice

December 2017

• Check the input source path for README.md, automatically parse this file if it is available
• Modify the algorithm to mangle upper case file names or page names when case sensitivity is turned on
• Do not report a return type mismatch if one of the return types is auto

• Update DoxyPressApp, add an icon to display a file selector for the markdown main page tag

2018

January 2018

• Update copyright
• Major internal update to the entry system which tracks and organizes parsed code and docs, uses QFlatMap
• Remove entire miniEntry (EntryNav) classes
• Remove marshalling / serialization
• Remove obsolete classes used for file storage

• Multiple cherry picks
• Correct duplicated ~ in a code block
• Correct backslash which was removed in a code block
• Update several translation files
• Resolve issues parsing TCL
• Fix template argument parsing for nested template arguments

• DoxyPress 1.2.12 release
• DoxyPressApp 1.2.12 release

February 2018

• Fix RTF issue when 'file source' tag is disabled
• Fix Latex cite file copy issue
• Backport cherry picks
• Improve syntax highlighting
• Increase lex file read buffer size, improve read methods
• Optimize several utility functions

• Update text in several translation files
• Add locale aware date and time formatting and translations
• Correct shallow copy issue in tag reader

• Use \deprecated command to add a "D" in the brief description documentation for HTML
• Add deprecated marker in the main documentation for HTML

• Improve documentation commands
• In the documentation, add sample code blocks for various computer languages showing syntax highlighting

March 2018

• DoxyPress 1.2.13 release
• DoxyPressApp 1.2.13 release

• Update documentation
• Published a video for our CopperSpice YouTube channel covering the general usage and features of DoxyPress

April 2018

• Enhanced verification for overloaded methods located in a namespace
• Changed the way methods in the source code and the documentation are verified to match

May 2018

• Overhaul the CopperSpice libraries to use CsString providing support for UTF-8 strings
• Convert DoxyPressApp to the use the new CopperSpice string classes
• Redesign DoxyPress to use the new CopperSpice string classes and regular expression classes
• Backport several changes

June 2018

• Major rewrite for markdown support to use iterators instead of indexes
• Run sanitizers on code base
• Enhance latex support

• Add Ubuntu 18.04 to CI server

• DoxyPressApp fully migrated to CopperSpice 1.5.0
• DoxyPress fully migrated to CopperSpice 1.5.0

• DoxyPress 1.3.0 release
• DoxyPressApp 1.3.0 release

July 2018

• Update DoxyPress documentation and context help in DoxyPressApp

• Add new project tag to include markdown headers in the table of contents
• Several new project tags added for clang parsing

• Update libClang and libTooling libraries to clang 6.0.1 for clang parsing
• Clang parsing tags moved to a separate page in DoxyPressApp
• Clang 6.0.1 headers are supplied and will be used when 'use supplied headers' is enabled
• Enhance syntax highlighting for the source output when using clang parsing
• Support for C++17 and some parts of C++2a available when parsing with clang

• When clang parsing is enabled
  • Using a compilation database generated by your build
    • Compilation database is used to automatically pass the clang flags used by your project
  • No compilation database available
    • Language dialect can be selected from a new tag instead of specifying in the clang flags
    • Clang header location is no longer required in the clang flags if the 'use supplied headers' tag is selected

August 2018

• Build distributions for clang 6.0.1 on all supported platforms
• Upload clang binaries to the copperspice download site
• Backport relevant enhancements and corrections

• Remove Fedora 24 from CI Server
• Add Fedora 27 to CI Server
• Add Fedora 28 to CI Server

• DoxyPress 1.3.1 release
• DoxyPressApp 1.3.1 release

• Add license to About box in DoxyPressApp

September 2018

• Fix project file name extension when there are multiple dots

• Attended CppCon in Seattle, Washington
• Presented a talk on Undefined Behavior at CppCon in Bellevue, Washington

• DoxyPressApp 1.3.2 release
• DoxyPress 1.3.2 release

December 2018

• Reduced the minimum height of DoxyPressApp

• Added constexpr label to output
• Backport numerous corrections to multiple output formats
• Improve language parsing

2019

January 2019

• Update copyright and license
• Improve handling of auto brief
• Enhance warning message when an entity is undocumented

February 2019

• DoxyPressApp 1.3.3 release
• DoxyPress 1.3.3 release

March 2019

• CopperSpice European Tour – C++ User Group presentations in the Netherlands, Germany, and England
• Multiple presentations at the emBO++ conference in Bochum, Germany

April 2019

• Add files for emoji support
• Clean up error message formatting
• Update JQuery version
• Optimize character escaping
• Enhance test suite

May 2019

• Code refactoring for improved readability
• Add const to methods and change 0 to nullptr
• Enhance TOC

June 2019

• Improve entry system and add second argument for commentscan commands
• Correct inplace modifications of strings
• Add support for inline images
• Various improvements to backslash escape handling

July 2019

• Enhance output for included files
• Various changes to the lex parsers
• Improve reflist handling and latex output
• Add support for colon and equal characters in html
• Changes to handle inline namespaces

August 2019

• Add rule for line continuation in preprocessing
• Fix markdown line breaks
• Add support for additional text styles like underline and strikeout
• Enhance RTF output
• Support formulas is RTF output
• Improve latex output

• DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp built with CopperSpice 1.6.0

• DoxyPressApp 1.3.4 release
• DoxyPress 1.3.4 release

September 2019

• Attended CppCon in in Denver, Colorado
• Presented a talk on "High performance graphics on the GPU" at CppCon in in Denver, Colorado

• Drop support for Autotools build system with CopperSpice
• Update to CMake 3.8 as the minimum required version

• DoxyPressApp 1.3.5 release
• DoxyPress 1.3.5 release

October 2019

• Drop support for Autotools build system with DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp
• Modernize CMake build files for DoxyPress and DoxyPressApp
• Move to C++17 on all platforms

• Streamline rpath support for Linux and Mac OS X
• Merge user pull requests with main branch
• Update DoxyPressApp API for dot settings

November 2019

• Minor code clean up
• Improve Mac OS X build support

• DoxyPress 1.3.6 release
• DoxyPressApp 1.3.6 release

• CopperSpice European Tour
  • Speaker at Meeting C++ 2019 Conference in Berlin, Germany
  • Presented an updated talk on "High performance graphics and rendering text on the GPU"
  • Speaker at code::dive 2019 in Wrocław, Poland
  • Presented "Undefined Behavior is Not an Error"
  • C++ and CopperSpice training in Bochum, Germany
  • Speaker at C++ User Group in the Netherlands

December 2019

• Correct markdown issue when the line ends with a back tick
• Fix a node issue in HTML output
• Prevent infinite loop during comment parsing

2020

January 2020

• Update copyright and license
• Change markdown to use <code> instead of <tt>
• Add missing elements for styles in dot
• Improve how PlantUML locates the dot program

February 2020

• Remove Fedora 27 from CI Server
• Add Fedora 31 to CI Server
• Add Centos 8 to CI Server

• Display error messages on the screen and log file when reading the project file
• Automatically create full output directory path
• Prevent warnings when various keywords appear in the return type
• Improve parsing for all languages

• DoxyPressApp 1.3.7 release
• DoxyPress 1.3.7 release

March 2020

• Adjust line spacing for code blocks
• For file listings where the comments are omitted, added one single comment to indicate number of lines removed
• Update multiple enums and array structures with new values
• Correct compiler warnings in DoxyPress
• Reorder constructor initialization
• Improve markdown parsing
• Remove unused locals in several existing methods
• Add support for new commands
• Enhance html parsing to use new commands
• Clean up html css, add new rules for intermediate tags

April 2020

• Change CMake target to suppress warnings located in clang headers
• Fix out of bounds issue when writing docs for member functions

• Remove Ubuntu 14.04 from CI
• Add Ubuntu 20.04 in CI

• DoxyPressApp 1.3.8 release
• DoxyPress 1.3.8 release

May 2020

• Change html css to improve formatting for source code listings
• Add handleProperty() which marks comments for a property
• Change enum MethodTypes to enum class MethodType
• Code clean up, adjust variable names for clarity
• Remove unused code

June 2020

• Remove Mac OS X 10.13 from CI since the support for C++17 is too limited
• Minimum required version for OS X is now XCode 11.3.1

July 2020

• Add description marker to indicate a method is present as a result of a "using" declaration
• Show parameters for methods included as a result of a using declaration
• Minor code clean up, add scope to enum values
• Add an option in the lex files to disable interactive parsing, unistd.h header is not required
• Rewrite acquireFileVersion() and readCodeFragment(), remove usage of popen() in favor of QProcess

• Build clang 10 from source for all supported systems

August 2020

• Removed unused code, rename local variables and method names for readability
• Add labels for C++ "nodiscard" and "noreturn" attributes
• Modify comment parsing to accurately document methods with attributes

• Update CMake build files to support clang 10
• Migrate "clang parsing" to use clang 10 internally
• Add new enum value in Entry::Sections to support C++20 concepts
• Add two new tab types for concepts in the XML layout manager
• Display requires clause in class documentation
• Display constraint in member documentation
• Enhance comment scan to parse new \concept command
• Add new css rule for C++ requires clause

• Enhance clang parsing to support C++20 concepts
• Enhance clang parsing to support requires and requires requires for C++20

September 2020

• Add parsing for #define macro documentation
• Improve clang parsing of comment, ensure the cursor does not go out of bounds
• Update DoxyPress test files for clang parsing enabled

• DoxyPressApp 1.4.0 release
• DoxyPress 1.4.0 release

October 2020

• Correct handling of escape sequences and quotes in Latex
• Add code to support includedoc, snippetdoc, and snipwithlines
• Enhance process for finding docs in members
• Update mathjax web site
• Change http to https in multiple places
• Enhance warning message
• Remove obsolete files
• Modify multiple parameter names for readability

November 2020

• Major update to DoxyPress test files
• Remove leading underscore in various method names
• Improve warning messages when call graph has too many nodes to output
• Prevent empty table for a class with no members
• Improve methods in html output
• Major improvements to the Latex output
• Refine html, latex, and XML resource style sheets
• Rename several free functions
• Fix issue when documenting source code files in subdirectories
• Incorporate additional nodes types in docparser
• Multiple revisions to enhance the output for a variety of formats
• Improve warnings in addRelatedPage()
• Update startCodeFragment() and endCodeFragment() methods for all output formats
• Add calls to start/end fragment
• Remove destructors, add deleted assignment operators for OutputList
• Move free functions into docbook visitor class
• Improve docbook visitor output
• Improve output for documenting method overloads and enums
• Correct issue of an invalid tag used to determine when file source is displayed

December 2020

• Add closing curly for pdf link in Latex
• Correct enum tables for Latex
• Improve tables for Latex output
• Change code to use std::invoke() for method pointer call
• Multiple output changes for man docs and RTF docs
• Change how members are counted
• Major internal change, rename multiple classes for sustainability

2021

January 2021

• Update copyright date

• Add the ability to bypass undocumented warnings using the new \bypassundocwarn command

• Show a warning when methods parameter names mismatch between source and docs
• Set new tag "warn-param-mismatch" to enable

• All directories listed in the "Input Source" tag are included in the clang flags
• Uncheck new tag "clang-include-input-source" to disable

• Add several new tags to DoxyPressApp
• Separate build configuration into two pages

• DoxyPressApp 1.4.1 release
• DoxyPress 1.4.1 release

March 2021

• Remove Fedora 28 and Fedora 29 from CI
• Add Fedora 32 and Fedora 33 in CI

May 2021

• Update to FreeBSD 12.2 in CI

August 2021

• Remove Fedora 30 and Fedora 31 from CI Server
• Add Fedora 34 to CI Server

June 2021

• Change "", 0, and nullptr to call QString()
• Correct multiple files to call QString() when passing an empty string

July 2021

• Add tooltip override for template classes
• Remove recursive macro, use range based for loop
• Improve container variable names
• Change several range based for() loops to use const reference
• Enhance searchInputfiles() function
• Improve URL detection
• Add new function for removeAllWhiteSpace()
• Improve linkifyText()
• Refactor createSubDirs()
• Minor changes to trimEmptyLines() for internal line break
• Improve handling of reflist
• Ensure every page has a title

August 2021

• Improve processLink() in markdown parsing for line counts
• Minor change in markdown detab() for non-breaking space
• Improve various visitPre and visitPost methods for html
• Enhance directory handling in buildFileList()
• Test for nullptr before usage in multiple places
• Redesign handling of c style comments
• Very minor changes to Fortran parsing
• Correct parsing of variadic macros
• Improve python comment parsing

Sept 2021

• Correct how internal_linebr is parsed
• Adjust when member name entires are added in add enum value function
• Improve html parsing for links
• Copy attributes when processing template specializations
• Enhance C++ parsing
• Improve C highlighting for comments
• Minor changes in comment parsing
• Add support for additional html tags and URL protocols when parsing source code
• Update generated lex files
• Improve XML output for images
• Improve warning message if translation files can not be loaded
• Update CMake build files to generate new .qm files
• In linkifyText() add call match() when word is not linked

November 2021

• Allow whitespace before void keyword in a C++ return type
• Improve captions in tables
• Improvements for XML output
• Minor changes to markdown for a fenced code block
• In RTF output add newline after list entry, avoids dropping text
• Close captions correctly in RTF output
• Update handling when parsing using declarations in C++
• Improve table formatting in RTF output
• Change variable names for readability
• Modify javascript code for tree view
• Update html resource files
• Minor change in regular expression for template argument parsing
• Change post increment/decrement to pre increment/decrement
• Add new methods to track location (row and column) of declarations
• Correct html formatting for an ordered list
• Create setDefFileName() method in Definition class
• Add new information for setPrototype() to store declaration locations
• Add missing information in Perl output
• Refactor Html Help

December 2021

• Update definitions in lex parser files
• Change how keywords for specific languages are processed
• Refine processing of comments
• Standardize detection of anonymous classes
• Add methods to standardize detection of anonymous methods
• Refactor using isAnonymous() and standardize anonymous namespace
• Refine Perl output for anonymous methods
• Add check for anonymous namespace when documenting class members
• Correct rule for parsing templates in default arguments
• Upgrade multiple rules in the C, C++, and Java parser
• Improve rules in the preprocessor parser for raw strings

• Update to CMake 3.16 as the minimum required version

2022

January 2022

• Update copyright

• DoxyPressApp 1.4.2 release
• DoxyPress 1.4.2 release

March 2022

• Add title and subject to LaTex pdf output
• Modify markdown to support strike through
• Move test for isFunction() to the outer if statement

May 2022

• Add new enums to support additional html tags, sort enums for readability
• Support additional html tags in docparser
• Update output visitor files to support additional html tags

• Correct how \ref is parsed if the text contains a line break
• Update resource file for xml output
• Fix html mathjax formatting
• Adjust warning messages

June 2022

• Code clean up
• Rename temp variable
• Change variable memberList to memberName, use ptrEntry instead of root
• Use "child" variable instead of "root" in addEnumValuesToEnums() method
• Change variable names to prevent shadowing in multiple files
• Rename data member in memberdef class
• Enhance source code readability

• Minor lex change for parsing Q_GADGET macro
• Display the word "struct" or "class" for strong enums
• Remove extra greater than sign in html output
• Minor html blockquote change
• Improve latex output for symbols
• Update dot to handle a problem when a file is not documented
• Change passed parameters in merge arguments
• Adjust processing of artificial entries
• Add isAnonymous() method to NamespaceDef
• Change how qualified name is computed for enums
• Minor changes in memberdef when writing documentation and links
• Reorder DocAnchor constructor
• Use "\n" instead of "endl" for pre-visit methods and formula
• Ignore empty items when generating pages for reference lists
• Add call for latex output to handle special characters
• Improve error messages for undocumented members

July 2022

• Modify how source code in rtf output is highlighted
• Handle file extensions in tag reader
• Minor changes in parsing inline formulas
• Improve support for tag files in a class
• Add xml output to doc image processing
• Add const to static tag declarations
• Fix variable shadowing in multiple files
• Improve copyToOutput() in comment processing
• Sort the list of class names shown on various index pages
• Show the qualified name in 'Inherits' or 'Reimplemented' documentation
• Optimize string initialization
• Clean up syntax, variable names, and formatting
• Clean up warning and error messages
• Handle table cell attributes in xml output
• Refactor attributes in html output
• Restructure logic for parsing a section of documentation

• Adjust list of emphasis characters in markdown
• Escape more characters in markdown
• Handle formula encoding syntax in isBlockCommand()
• Modify return value in markdown processing of dashes
• Add two methods for processing images
• Refactor extractPageTitle()
• Correct off by one error in a fenced code block
• Change how new lines are detected and counted
• Change string view to a string to extend the lifetime of the title
• Refactor main entry function in markdown
• Improve processing of new lines in a markdown block quote and a code block
• Modifying how links are processed in markdown
• Handle inline images in processlink()
• Modify indent level for markdown headers

• Add more rules for processing comments in c style source code
• Add script file to generate .cpp files from lex input
• Rename static variables, add scope to enums in lex parsers
• Rename static variables, add scope to enums to lex files
• Remove unused code in lex source
• Modify rules for lex files
• Improve rule names in Fortran lex files

August 2022

• Expand range of supported CMake versions
• Modify test input files

• Add new command \force_output which will force an \fn block with no documentation to be included in the output
• Improve warning messages, refactor how a project alias is expanded
• Update xml header in tag files
• Use ptrEntry instead of root in findEnumDocumentation()
• Rename variables to remove shadowing
• Refactor several find methods
• Update latex header
• Enhance handling of page header in markdown parser
• Add support for strong enums
• Improve syntax highlighting
• Modify rules to handle comments inside code
• Add additional lex support for requires and concepts constructs
• Adjust parsing of comments in Python code
• Add new parsing rules for Fortran

September 2022

• Add new rules for Fortran syntax highlighting
• Process comments better, improve line breaks and braces
• Improve parsing of templates in comments
• Add more support for concepts, requires, and constraints in lex parsers

• DoxyPressApp 1.5.0 release
• DoxyPress 1.5.0 release

November 2022

• Update html JavaScript files for searching
• Improve handling of html paragraph tags
• Fix sort order of class names

2023

January 2023

• Update copyright
• Improve parsing of linked words

• DoxyPressApp 1.5.1 release
• DoxyPress 1.5.1 release

February 2023

• Remove code which prevented overloads in the same class from being documented

March 2023

• Add extra space after reference qualifier
• Adjust when noexcept keyword is added to a method signature when parsing with clang
• Correction for missing backslash in a code block
• Ensure friend docs are not confused with constructors

November 2023

• Correct invalid string conversion
• Add const reference to improve performance
• Update default clang version to C++17
• Remove or update warning messages and comments
• Correct forward declarations
• Remove unused members in several classes
• Use filePath() for back up file location
• Change variable name from stat to m_static
• Code clean up
• Change how using declarations are stored
• Use pre increment/decrement instead of post increment/decrement
• Use unique file name for unknown man pages
• Add additional source file extensions for C++
• Remove scope names from search index when hide scope names is set
• Optimize for loops
• Support protected members in python
• Improve comment parsing
• Detect recursive call when parsing classes
• Remove obsolete code
• Remove unnecessary inline keyword for methods inside a class
• Refine add() methods in perl output
• Fix indentation in perl output
• Clean up the source code which generates perl output
• Change FileList to a const reference
• Add new method to perl output include file names
• Various improvements for the perl output
• Add explicit test for nullptr
• Rename includeInfo() to getIncludeInfo()
• Rename initializer() to getInitializer()
• Fix compiler warnings
• Block out unused code
• Alter initialization of empty strings

December 2023

• Add methods to insert and retrieve a concept definition object from the global dictionary
• Add methods for writing concepts
• Revise various methods for C++ concepts
• Add support for Concept page in documentation layout
• Update how documentation is written for Files, Groups, and Namespaces
• Minor changes to resource files
• Add icon for page index
• Enhance parsing class members
• Add new index sections, refactor code for processing sections
• Add additional sections and parsing for docbook, latex, rtf, and xml outputs
• Enhance tag files, add support for concepts
• Rewrite the method which converts template arguments to a string
• Add a new function to find a concept for a given name
• Correct an issue with parsing latex strings
• Add concepts to the search index
• Improve parsing for perl output
• Support two new project file tags to warn when a See Also entry does not link
• Add new keywords in various lex parsers
• Modify parsing of html tags
• Change warning for an invalid comment block
• Multiple changes for syntax highlighting in code output
• Enhance code parser
• Improve primary processing system, add status messages and new documentation sections

2024

January 2024

• Update copyright
• Update readme file

• DoxyPressApp 1.6.0 release
• DoxyPress 1.6.0 release

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